New Haven Friends Meeting Records
The Friends meeting in New Haven, Conn., can be traced back to at least 1935, when a worship group there became affiliated with the independent Connectict Valley Association of Friends. With the general reunification of New England Friends in 1944, the Association became the Connecticut Valley Quarterly Meeting, and New Haven becoming a monthly, within the New England Yearly Meeting.
The records of New Haven Monthly Meeting contain a thorough set of minutes from 1940-2010, along with a small stretch of minutes from the worship group in Old Saybrook (1955).
Background on New Haven Friends Meeting
The Friends meeting in New Haven, Conn., can be traced back to at least 1935, when a worship group there became affiliated with the independent Connecticut Valley Association of Friends. With the general reunification of New England Friends in 1944, the Association became the Connecticut Valley Quarterly Meeting, and New Haven becoming a monthly, within the New England Yearly Meeting.
New Haven has been an important center of Friends activity in southern Connecticut, caring for a worship group at Old Saybrook (1954-1955) and the preparative meeting at Guilford (1953-1957), which was set off as a monthly meeting of its own in 1957. New Haven has often absorbed members as smaller meetings in the area were laid down.
Scope of collection
The records of New Haven Monthly Meeting contain a thorough set of minutes from 1940-2010, along with a small stretch of minutes from the worship group in Old Saybrook (1955).
Inventory
Administrative information
Access
The collection is open for research.
Provenance
Gift of the New England Yearly Meeting of Friends Records, March 2016.
Related Material
This collection is part of the New England Yearly Meeting Records.
Current contact for the meeting
Processing Information
Processed by I. Eliot Wentworth, October 2018.
Language:
English
Copyright and Use (More information )
Cite as: New Haven Friends Meeting Records (MS 902 N494). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
Search terms
Subjects
- New Haven (Conn.)–Religious life and customs
- Quakers–Connecticut
- Society of Friends–Connecticut
Names
- New England Yearly Meeting of Friends
Genre terms
- Minutes (Administrative records)
- Newsletters